by Madelline Romero | May 28, 2018
Sinh Somphavong, a farmer for 33 years in Xieng Khouang province northeast of Laos, farms on more than one ha of land, and earns about 50 million kip (around US$6,000) each year from selling rice, vegetables, forages, and livestock. Livestock is his major income...
by Karolina Argote | May 16, 2018
BioTerra: The new biodiversity monitoring system being developed by USAID Natural Wealth Program por Karolina Argote | May 16, 2018 BioTerra is an innovative biodiversity monitoring system developed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | May 16, 2018
Dr. Evan Girvetz, a senior scientist at CIAT, speaks during a national stakeholder workshop on climate risk profiling held in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo by: Georgina Smith / CIAT Over the last few years, CIAT, under the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,...
by Madelline Romero | May 15, 2018
CATAS and CIAT set priority agenda for collaborative research in China and Southeast Asia China is a major importer of agricultural products and ASEAN’s biggest trading partner. With nearly two billion people and many rapidly urbanizing areas between them, it comes as...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | May 15, 2018
Technicians perform visual scoring of select rice breeding lines that resistant and susceptible to the hoja blanca virus. Photo by: FLAR It’s a sight no rice farmer in Colombia or elsewhere in Latin America would like to see: stunted rice plants with bleached white...
by Maria Eliza Villarino | May 9, 2018
Sebastian Grey makes a presentation on the Ethiopia climate-smart agriculture (CSA) country profile. He is the CIAT CSA country profiles coordinator. Photo by: T. Muchaba / CCAFS CIAT is rolling out climate-smart agriculture (CSA) profiles for four additional African...